Trench silo constructed in the summer of 1955. Dimensions: six feet deep, fourteen feet wide at bottom, sixteen feet wide at top, and seventy-five feet long. Filled with corn and sorghum and covered with sheet of water-proof paper, ground limestone and sawdust.

Farm owner

Bryson, Ike

Contextual note

One in a series of photographs of agricultural activities in Cannon County, TN that were taken by W.L. Clement, District Conservationist for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, and his assistants between the mid-1940s and mid-1970s.

People in Photograph

[Ike Bryson and son]

Collection Name

Photographs of W.L. Clement, U.S. Soil Conservation Service

ID Number

T-183-1

Subject-LCSH

Silos

Subject-TGM

Photographic prints;

Subject-Keyword

Trench silo;

Geographic Location

Cannon County (Tenn.)

Community Name

Woodbury;

Soil Conservation District or Watershed

TN-SCD-19; Stones River

Type

Image

Format

jpeg

Genre

Photograph

Extent

Approx. 4.5" x 4"

Source file

T1831_142f_trenchsilo

Copyright status

Publication of the United States government. Not copyrighted

Conditions for use

May be freely reproduced. Please credit the original photograph to: United States Soil Conservation Service. Credit the source of the digital item to: Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University.

Digital Publisher

Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University